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Aqua OpenOffice for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the aqua-licious dept.

rhetland writes "An article on O'Reilly network discusses the new port of OpenOffice to Mac OS X. The public beta, due out next week, will be posted on the OpenOffice Mac site. I have been waiting for this for months, and can hardly wait."

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  1. Red Hat and Apple's Office Suite of choice? by amichalo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With an Aqua version of Open Office soon available, and Open Office shipping as default install on Red Hat 8.0, are we seeing a dominant #2 player in the Office Suite market?

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  2. Re:well, i WOULD be excited about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you sure it was such a kickass licensing deal, or did your school get blackmailed by MS and as a student you now how to spend a large portion of your student technology fees on these products.

    If its anything like my school, MS blackmailed the school out of Five Million Dollars a year that would have gone to upgrading computer labs and paying technology consultants fair and equitable raises, forcing a maximium numb of non-Windows Servers on campus as well as placing a cap on the funny hardware systems faculty might buy such as Macs.

    Don't kid yourself, MS came to your school and threatened to sue it for piracy and otherwise if it didn't agree to the terms as it has with all the other schools.

  3. Re:A Sweet Suite Situation by weo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Aaaah but you forget the OTHER office application.

    KOffice run well on OSX using fink or the other linux@OSX distributions. I can't wait for KDE 3.1 to run on OSX.

    OSX+OS(kde+gnu+gnome+X....) = ME+:)

    on a side note I want linksys to make a a box with exportable X session or VNC session running linux. The only difference from what they sell now and what I'm talking about is a harddrive and a beefier processor. I'ld pay for a linux applience for 100bucks.

    weo

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  4. Re:I think... by Christopher+McCarthy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, it was my understanding that the previous OmniWeb icon looked too much like the icon for the 'Internet' pane under System Preferences, not the 'Network' icon. And, comparing them, they do look pretty similar, especially at the small size at which the 'Internet' icon is usually viewed in the System Preferences window. Too bad, though: I really preferred the old OmniWeb icon to the current blue-and-green one.

    This case doesn't seem to be the classic one of Apple getting tough on third parties over UI issues. I could be wrong, but it looks like Apple simply asked the Omni Group to change their icon, and the Omni people granted their request. It would make sense that these two companies would want to remain on good terms, as the Omni Group, as far as I'm concerned, is setting the standards for how OS X applications should look and behave--in some cases, even more so than Apple is.

    And how could you not love a software company who states that their mission is to "make software that is useful and fun?"

  5. hope it works... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have Open Office 1.0 running on my OS X machine, but it is so buggy that it is unusable. I hope the new version works better. An aqua version would be awesome; I don't mind running XF86 in rootless mode, but an aqua version would make the whole experience more seamless.

    for now, I use TextEdit which comes with OS X. It is very stable and usable, though not too good at advanced formatting. And why of why does everybody have to use .doc format anyway. it is such a piece of crap and there are major privacy issues with it...don't beleive me? open up a .doc with BBEdit or something...

  6. OT, but I'm curious... by interactive_civilian · · Score: 3, Interesting
    IANADeveloper but...
    This is still the X11 version. Sure, it'll be nice to try it, but it won't have Mac look and feel, and certainly won't obey the Human Interface Guidelines yet.
    I know the Apple HIG are meant to guide people developing Macintosh software, but why don't more developer's use them to help when designing GUI based software regardless of the platform?

    IMHO, Apple knows what they are talking about when it comes designing an interface, so the HIG seem to be a great resource for anyone to use.So, any of you programmers for windows and *nix pay any attention to them?

    A lot of people talk about trying to get linux on the desktop and how to do it...call me crazy but perhaps if developers kept the HIG in mind it would push things forward quite a bit as far as linux usability goes...

    note: I am not saying the HIG must be followed to the letter but it seems like it would be a great starting point for developers of any GUI based software...

    Any thoughts on this? Can the HIG be a valuable resource for anyone?

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  7. Re:well, i WOULD be excited about this by volsung · · Score: 3, Interesting
    (I'm also a UT student and cashed in on this deal last week. Still waiting for VMWare to arrive so I can keep XP in an emulator.)

    Yes it is way cheap, but you have some really wonderful clauses in the licensing:

    • If UT decides not to renew their site license with Microsoft, you license is immediately revoked.
    • If you quit the university, your license is revoked.

    At least the license converts to a permanent license if you graduate (your parting gift!).